<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The kms console is still experimental but we will be enabling it by default soon. You can enable it by putting this in your /boot/loader.conf:<br><br></div>kern.kms_console=1<br><br></div>In terms of boot times, there aren't any shortcuts available for the kernel boot itself but you can reduce the menu time in the boot loader by setting the autoboot_delay variable in your /boot/loader.conf. For example:<br><br></div><div>autoboot_delay=2<br></div><div><br></div>-Matt<br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Gautam Goel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gautamcgoel@gmail.com" target="_blank">gautamcgoel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi guys,<br>
<br>
I'm a new user. I'm running 4.2 on an i3 Haswell. There are a few questions I<br>
was hoping you could help with.<br>
<br>
1. How do you decrease the boot time? On my machine with an ssd, it takes<br>
more than 20 seconds from the time I press the on button to the time I'm<br>
presented with the login prompt. That's significantly worse than Windows or<br>
Debian, which is surprising since Dragonfly is so much smaller and more<br>
minimal. I notice two things: A. we are asked to press '1' to boot the<br>
standard OS, and B. the screen then fills up with the output of dmesg, i.e<br>
what drivers it can find and so forth. Is there any way to configure the OS<br>
so that it does A automatically? And any way to speed up B?<br>
<br>
<br>
2. To get to my MATE desktop, I currently enter 'startx' at the command<br>
prompt. When I log out (within MATE), the screen goes black and nothing<br>
happens. How do I configure the machine so that A. it presents me with a<br>
graphical login screen at boot, not a command line and B. it allows me to log<br>
out and switch users from within MATE?<br>
<br>
<br>
Sorry if these are dumb questions. I looked through the handbook and the man<br>
pages and couldn't find the answers. Thanks in advance for any help!<br>
<br>
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